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Some Indiana 
Insurance Faces 



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M01{ II. I^AF.DWIN 



Copyrichicd 1901 by Moc Baldwin 

Printed by Scott-Mitler Companr, lodianapotii 



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"As we journey through Hfe let us 
live bv the way." With these few 
words the Irish poet, Tom Moore, 
voices the sentiment and explains the 
main purpose of this little book, con- 
taining "Some Indiana Insurance 
Faces." I am sure we, at least the 
most of us, spend too much of our 
time — that valuable commodity — and 
our monev — that root of all evil — with 
the serious, when if we would only stop 
"by the way" now and then, how much 
brighter we, as well as the rest of the 
world, would be, because 

"A little nonsense now and tiien, 
Is relished by the best of men." 

This galaxv of faces might be called 
a souvenir of the men who are now, and 
have been, in the Insurance Field 
W o r k of Indiana. And last, but 
decidedly not least, an important object 
of this etifort is to assist me in keeping 
the wolf from the door. 

If I have succeeded in moving your 
risibles in an infinitesimal degree, as 
vou journey through this little book, 
then mv endeavor has not been wholly 
ineffectual. 

Yours very truly, 

MoE Baldwin 



I mil not prone to mor;ilizc 

In scientiric doubt, 
On certiiin f;Kt> that Nature tries 

To puzzle us about; 
For 1 am no philosopher 

Ot wise education, 
But speak of thint^s as they occur, 

From simple observation. 



BENJAMIN KELSEY 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

Kctireil 

The name Kelsey is one to conjure with in the 
insurance field. Benjamin Kelsey might well be 
called the "Father of Insurance," since so many of 
his progeny are well to the front in the insurance 
world — his sons, Horatio, Manager of the Western 
Department of the Sun Insurance Office, Joseph A., 
manager of the Aachen & Munich Fire Insurance 
Company, and Preston T., Assistant Manager of 
the Western Department of the Sun Insurance 
Office. 

Benjamin Kelse\- was born July 2ist, 1827. in 
Higganum, Connecticut, and began his education 
in the public schools at Haddam, Connecticut, 
afterwards attending Brainard Academ\ . 

From 1842 to 1856 he was a clerk in a whole- 
sale house in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1856 he 
moved to St. Marys, Ohio, where he engaged, with 
a brother, in the general merchandise business. 
From i8s9 to 1870, in St. Marys, in connection 
with his other duties he entered the local insurance 
work, representing, among other companies, the 
Hartford of Hartford, i+>tna of Hartford, and New 
'I ork Underwriters. In 1870 he was made Special 
Agent for the Andes, Amazon and Triumph of 
Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1874 was appointed Special 
Agent, and later General Adjuster, for the Hart- 
ford of Hartford. In 1899 he accepted a place 
with the Aachen & Alunich, and in 1901, having 
the respect of all who knew him, the gratitude of 
his employers, and the consciousness of having done 
his whole duty at all times and in all seasons, he 
retired from the insurance field. 



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Benjamin Kelsey 



HARRY B. HEYWOOD 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

Special Agent of Indiana Recording Agencies for The 
Hartford Fire Insurance Company, of Connecticut 



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On the fifth of March, in the year of 1865, 
the quaint old inhabitants of Chicago, that little 
village which is located in Cook County, Illinois, 
were disturbed by a noise, which far surpassed the 
howling of the March winds. The disturber 
proved to be a new arrival in this old world, known 
as Harry B. Heywood, the now prominent Special 
Agent for the Hartford Fire, and member of the 
State Board of Fire Underwriters, who spends his 
odd moments with his flowers and chickens, 

Mr. Heywood was educated in the public 
schools of Chicago and at the Phillips Exeter 
Academy, of Exeter, New Hampshire. He en- 
gaged in the insurance business in 1882 in the 
offices of Moore & James, local agents at Chicago. 
In 1884 he entered the offices of the W^estern De- 
partment of the Hartford Fire, with whom he has 
been ever since, with the exception of six years, 
during which time he was engaged in the local 
insurance business in Marshfield, Wisconsin, from 
1886 to iSgs inclusive. In 1894 he returned to 
the Hartford as Special Agent for Nebraska and 
South Dakota. On February i, 1896, he came to 
Indiana, and has represented the Hartford as Special 
Agent of Indiana Recording Agencies in this State 
ever since. 




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J. IRVING RIDDLE 

Terre Haute, Indiana 

State Agent of Indiana for the Phenix Insurance 
Company of Brooklyn 



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When business will permit and the hunters are 
headed for Arkansaw, if you look on the list of 
those who have gone, with their guns, to that State 
for a little rest, among the first on the list you will 
find the name of J. Ir\'ING Riddle, the Phenix 
of Brooklyn's prominent State Agent. Besides an 
insurance man and a hunter, Mr. Riddle is an active 
politician and supports the G. O. P. 

Mr. Riddle was born in Wauson, Ohio, Sep- 
tember 7th, 1847, and has been engaged in the 
insurance business ever since his school days, enter- 
ing it in 1870, in Wauson. In 1873 he removed 
to Terre Haute, Indiana, and was appointed State 
Agent for the Phenix of Brooklyn for Indiana and 
Kentucky January 1st, 1874. A few years later he 
gave up Kentucky and has represented the Phenix 
in Indiana ever since. During the thirty years of 
which Mr. Riddle has been with the Phenix, the 
premiums have increased from 535,000 to $350,000. 
Mr. Riddle is President of Riddle-Hamilton Com- 
pany, a real estate and loan corporation of Terre 
Haute, which has been in business nearly a third of 
a century. He is a member of the Northwestern 
Underwriters' Association and the Indiana Fire 
Underwriters' Association. 



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J. Irving Riddle 



FRED. S. PENFIELD 

Indianapolis. Indiana 

State Agent of Indiana for the Ciernianian Insurance 
Company, of New York 



On the accompanying page you will find Fred. 
S. Penfield as he appeared in his first pair of long 
trousers and as he appears to-da\ . If you will notice 
by the expression on his face in the reproduction of 
the photo marked " then," you will see that he was 
kicking then, and his associates insist that he is still 
at it. iVIr. Penfield is not only known as a kicker, 
among the insurance men, but as the " Chauncey 
M. Depew of Indiana Insurance Men," \\hich dis- 
tinction he has won by his clever after-dinner talks. 
Those which have made him famous are: "Does 
it Pay to Be Good?" "On the Firing-Line, Front 
and Rear \'iew," and his most recent, " Is Marriage 
a Failure?" 

Mr. Penfield was born in Oswego, New York, 
December 25, 1851, and was educated in the com- 
inon schools of that city. For five years after his 
school days he was engaged in the retail lumber 
business at Oswego. He then entered the insur- 
ance work at that city in the local agency of Pen- 
field & Son. In June of 1887 he accepted a position 
with the Germanian Insurance Company, of New 
York, in the Western Department in Chicago, 
which Company he now represents as Indiana State 
Agent. 



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WILLIAM J. WOOD 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

Adjuster, Plienix Insurance Company of Brooklyn 



We all get on the water wagon once in a while, 
but very few of us are en to the Water Works. 
William J. Wood is the man of the Indiana State 
Board who is on to the W ater Works, or rather 
is their Expert on Water Works and Fire Depart- 
ments, and has been Chairman of the State Board's 
Water Works Committee for many years. 

Mr. Wood was born in Spencer County, Indiana, 
February 27th, 1857, ^nd "as educated in Westfield 
College, Westfield, Illinois. After his college days 
he was a clerk in a store for five years and then 
went into a law office, where he remained for two 
years. He entered the insurance business at Terre 
Haute in 1880. In 1883 he accepted a position as 
Special Agent for the American of Philadelphia, 
remaining with this company for a year, resigning 
to accept a similar one with the Phenix of Brook- 
lyn, with which company he remained from 1884 
until March, 1891, when he went with the Insur- 
ance Company of North America and Philadelphia 
Underwriters as State Agent and Adjuster, resign- 
ing that position in March, 1901, to assume his 
present position as Adjuster for the Phenix of 
Brooklyn. 



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William J. Wood 



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JOSEPH L. BIERBRAUER 

Chicago, Illinois 

Special Agent of Illinois, Indiana. Missouri and Kentucky 

for the Rochester German Insurance Company 

of Rochester, New York 



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A man who is a successful insurance man, and 
this book contains only the successful ones, is one 
who fears nothing — not even politics. Joseph L. 
BiERBRAUER, the Rochester German's Special 
Agent in Indiana, is one who has demonstrated this 
fact, having dipped into the politics of Illinois. 

Mr. Bierbrauer was born in Rochester, New 
York, March i6th, 1870, and was educated in the 
public schools and University of Rochester. He 
entered the insurance business at Rochester fifteen 
years ago with the Rochester German Insurance 
Company, and has been with that company ever 
since, now representing the company as its Special 
Agent through Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Ken- 
tucky, with headquarters at Chicago. 



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Joseph L. Bierbrauer 



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ROBERT G. McCULLOUGH 

Indianapolis. Indiana 

State Agent ot Indiana tor the Connecticut Fire Insurance 
Company, o( Hartford, Connecticut 

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It would be hard to find an organization of suc- 
cessful men without somewhere in that body a bit 
o'blarney. ROBERT G. McCuLi.our.H is the bit 
o'blarney of the Indiana insurance men, being born 
in Belfast, Ireland, in 1864. He received his edu- 
cation in the public schools of that city, after which 
for five years he was engaged in the mercantile 
business in his birthplace. Retiring from that occu- 
pation he came to this country, and in March, 1 887, 
he entered the insurance work in the VV'estern 
Department office of the Connecticut Fire Insur- 
ance Company, with which company he has been 
connected ever since, now representing them as 
their Indiana State Airent. 



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Robert (J. .McCullou>;h 



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A. B. HAHN 

Richmond, Indiana 

Special Agent, Continental Insurance Company 
of New York 



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It is needless to say that Air. Hahn was not 
with Washington when he crossed the Delaware, 
for the Delaware had frozen up and had thawed 
out many times since Washington crossed it when 
Mr. Hahn first saw the h'ght of day, but he is the 
Continental's Special Agent, which accounts for 
his Colonial uniform. 

A. B. Hahn was born in Preble County, Ohio, 
and was educated in Otterbein University. After 
leaving college he was a teacher in the schools at 
New Paris, Ohio, later becoming Superintendent of 
these schools. Resigning this position a few years 
later, he removed to Richmond, Indiana, where he 
entered the insurance business and 1883 he accepted 
a place with the Continental Insurance Compan\ of 
New York, with which he has been connected ever 
since, now representing this company as Special 
Agent. 



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A. B. Halm 



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GEORGE O. HOADLEY 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

State Agent of Indiana for the American of Newark 

and Security Fire Insurance Company 

of New Haven 



The fishin' fever seems to be a common com- 
plaint among the Indiana insurance men. George 
O. HoADLEY, the State Agent of the American of 
Newark and Security Company of New Haven, 
is among those who enjoy the sport with the rod 
and Hne. Mr. Hoadiey is one of the popular men 
in the Indiana field, being one of the leading mem- 
bers of the Indiana League of Fire Underwriters. 
He was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1872, and 
received his education in the schools of that cit\'. 

Mr. Hoadle\ has always been in the insurance 
business, entering in 1890 with Benjamin Rhodes, 
Jr., Local Agent in New York City. In 1891 he 
accepted a place with the American Insurance Com- 
pany in their home office at Newark, New Jersey. 
In 1899 he was appointed to his present position as 
Indiana State Agent for the American of Newark 
and Security Fire Insurance Company of New 
Haven with headquarters at Indianapolis, Indiana. 

On July 1st, of this year, will remove to San 
Francisco, California, to become Assistant Manager 
of the American's Coast Department. 



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aeor$;e O. Hoadley 



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JOHN FITZGERALD 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

Special Agent of Indiana tor the Queen Insurance 
Company of America 



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" Hello! There is nothing between us, is there?" 
With a hearty hand-shake is the greeting b\' which 
John Fitzgerald (or Fitz, as he is called), the 
Queen Insurance Company of America's Special 
Agent of Indiana, is known among the insurance 
men. 

Mr. Fitzgerald was born in Franklin, Warren 
County, Ohio, December i6th, 1863, and received 
his education in the public schools, three years at 
\ alparaiso and at Miami College at Dayton, Ohio. 
He taught school for five years after his school days, 
three years at Greenville, Ohio, resigned this posi- 
tion in 1889 on account of ill health and entered 
the insurance work at that place. He was con- 
nected with the Home of New York as Assistant 
Special Agent in Farm and Sub-Agency for si.x 
years, after which he was with the Connecticut 
Fire Insurance Company as Special Agent in Indi- 
ana for three years. He then went with the 
Providence-Washington Insurance Company as 
Special Agent in Indiana and Michigan, with which 
company he was connected for three years, and on 
February 1st, 1905, he was appointed to his present 
position as Special Agent in Indiana for the Queen 
Insurance Company of America. 



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John Hit/.gerald 



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ERNEST L. MOORE 

LaFayette. Indiana 

Special Agent of Indiana for Indianapolis Fire Insurance 
Company, of Indianapolis 



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The gentleman who is placed on the Soldier's 
and Sailor's Monument of Indianapolis in the 
accompanying caricature is not the owner of this 
masterpiece, but Ernest L. Moore, the Indiana 
Special Agent for the Indianapolis Fire Insurance 
Company of Indianapolis. 

Mr. Moore was born in LaFayette. Indiana, 
August 31, 1877, and received his education in the 
schools of LaFayette, Purdue University and Frank- 
lin College, graduating from the latter in 1898. 
During the vacation months while attending college 
he worked in his father's real estate and loan office 
at LaFayette, and after he graduated from college 
he entered the Insurance Inspector's office of La- 
Fayette, remaining there for five years, and on April 
nth, 190+, he accepted the position which he now 
holds. 



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Ernest L. Moore 



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ANDREW J. DILLON 

Rochester, Indiana 

State Agent Continental Insurance Company 
of New York 



The accompanying; caricature is not a likeness 
of a member of the famous Boston Tea Party, but 
that of Andrew J. Dillox, the Continental's 
State Agent for Indiana. Mr. Dillon was born in 
Maxinkuckee, Indiana, May i6th, 1859, and re- 
ceived his education at Franklin College at Franklin, 
Indiana, and the State University at Bloomington. 
After leaving college he was County Superintendent 
for four years of Fulton County, Indiana. He then 
engaged in the hardware business at Rochester, In- 
diana, remaining in that vocation for three years. 
In 1885 he was appointed agent for the Continental 
and in i8gi he accepted the position as Special 
Agent for the same company, and has been with 
this company ever since, now representing them as 
State Agent of Indiana. 



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Andrew .1. Dilldii 



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HORACE W. BOYD 

New Castle, Indiana 

State Agent ot Indiana tor the Royal Insurance Company 
o( England 



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Horace W. Boyd enjoys the distinction of rep- 
resenting the company whose business is the largest 
of any foreign company in Indiana. This company, 
which also enjoys the distinction of having this royal 
good fellow as its State Agent, is the Royal of Liv- 
erpool, England. 

Mr. Boyd was born near New Castle, Henry 
County, Indiana, May 22, 1870, and was educated 
in the schools of New Castle. He was Deput\ 
Recorder of Henry County from January, 1889, to 
May, 1892, when he entered the insurance business 
as a member of the firm of Boyd Brothers. From 
October, 1899, to October, igo2, he was Special 
Agent of the German Fire Insurance Company. In 
1902 he was appointed State Agent for the same 
company, resigning this position August, 1904., to 
accept the one he now holds. His entire time is 
given to the Royal's business, although he still 
retains his interest in the firm of Boyd Brothers. 



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Horace v\ . ilo\ d 



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CHARLES A. KELLEY 

Terre Haute, Indiana 

State Agent and Adjuster of Indiana and Michigan 

for the St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance 

Company 



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Mr. Charles A. Kelley, who appears in cari- 
cature on the accompanying page, was born in 
Sulh'van, Indiana, December 27th, 1863, and was 
educated in the public schools of Terre Haute, 
Indiana. 

In 1883 he became identified with the insurance 
interests at Terre Haute, and has been continuously 
connected therewith ever since. In 189O he accepted 
the Indiana Special Agency for the Traders Insur- 
ance Company of Chicago, Illinois, remaining with 
that company until February, igoi. During the 
balance of 1901 he represented the St. Paul Fire 
and Marine Insurance Compan\' as Special Agent 
in Indiana and Western Ohio. In January, 1902, 
his position was changed to State Agent and Adjuster 
for the St. Paul in Indiana, Kentuck\' and the 
Southern Peninsula of Michigan, which field he 
covered for two years, and in January, 1 904, his 
field was again changed to Indiana and the entire 
State of Michigan, in which territory he is now 
traveling. Besides his field work, Mr. Kelley finds 
time to devote some attention to the local business, 
and is the senior member of the Kelley & Wagner 
Agenc\- at Terre Haute. 



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Charles A. Kelley 



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JOHN H. HELLEKSON 

Indianapolis. Indiana 

Indiana State Agent for the Springfield Fire and Marine 
Insurance Company, of Springfield, Massachusetts 



It only seems natural that fire insurance men 
should prefer those places where fire is least likely 
to occur. So, in case you wish to find John H. 
Helleksox, or "Jack," as he is known among the 
insurance men, during the months of the year when 
fish are biting, look over the "old fishin' holes" of 
Indiana, and when business will permit you will find 
him with his rod and line at one of them waiting 
for a bite. He is a member in good standing of the 
Nappanee Committee, an organization of insur- 
ance fishermen, and is one of its most enthusiastic 
workers. 

Mr. Hellekson was born in Chicago in October, 
1862, and received his education in the puplic 
schools of that city. He has been in the insurance 
business ever since his school days, entering it in 
1877 with the Springfield, in their Western Offices 
at Chicago. In 1887 he was given charge of Indi- 
ana for the Springfield, which company he has 
represented in this field ever since. 



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John H. Hellekson 



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CHARLES BOICOURT 

Indianapolis. Indiana 

Special Agent of Indiana for the Cierman Fire Insurance 
Company of Indiana 

Charles Boicourt was born in Madison, In- 
diana, October 23, 1857, and received his education 
in the schools of that city. After his school days 
he accepted a position as clerk in a general store at 
Madison. In 1881 he moved to Indianapolis, In- 
diana, and entered the fire and life insurance office 
of John H. Ohr as clerk, resigning to accept a 
place as salesman with a local hatter. In Decem- 
ber, 1901, he again entered the insurance business 
as clerk in a local agency at Indianapolis, and later 
accepted a position as Examiner with the Indiana 
Insurance Company of Indianapolis, remaining with 
this company until August, 1902, when he resigned 
to enter the employment of the German Fire In- 
surance Company of Indiana, with which company 
he is now connected as Special Agent of Indiana. 

Mr. Boicourt is one of the man\' men in this 
world who enjoys out-door life, and \ou will find 
him spending his vacation with a tent on the banks 
of a lake or good river. 



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Charles Boicourt 



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FRED W. KOECHERT 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

Special Agent ot Indiana fur the (iernian Fire Insurance 
Company of Indiana 

Representative of the German Fire Insurance 
Company of Indiana, a German by descent, of 
which he is justly proud, is Fred W. Koechert, 
whose ambition is to place the "Little German" 
among the top-notchers in premium receipts in 
Indiana. 

Fred W. Koechert was born in Indianapolis, 
Indiana, August 8, 1879, and began his education 
in the public schools of that city. He was gradu- 
ated from the Manual Training High School in 
1897, after which he entered the shoe business, in 
which he remained for three years. In March, 
1900, he accepted a position with the German Fire 
Insurance Company of Indiana, with which com- 
pany he is now connected as Special Agent. 



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Fred W. Koechert 



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CHANNING L. RUDY 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

Special Agent of Indiana for the German Insurance 
Company of Fieeport, Illinois 



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Channing L. Rudy is a President, not of any 
Republic, as \ou would imagine after seeing the 
distinguished-looking gentleman, but of the Indiana 
League of Fire Uuderwriters, over which he pre- 
sides with a strenuous hand. 

Mr. Rudy was born in Hagerstown, Indiana, 
June 12, 1869, and began his education in the 
schools of that place, graduating from the Com- 
missioned High School April 29, 1887, having also 
spent three months at Spiceland Academy prior to 
this. After finishing high school he attended 
Richmond Business College and then spent a \ear 
and a half in the State University at Hloomington, 
Indiana. For several years after leaving college he 
successfully managed a small cigar factory. His 
first experience in the insurance business was in his 
father's local agency at Hagerstown, after which 
for several years he assisted his father in his clerical 
work as State Agent for the German Insurance 
Company of Freeport, also doing a little work in 
the Indiana field, and in 1897 he accepted the posi- 
tion which he now holds as Special Agent of 
Indiana for the German Insurance Company of 
Freeport, Illinois, and in July of 1900 he moved to 
Indianapolis, where he now resides. 



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Channini; L. Rudy 



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JOHN W. WILLIAMS 

Irvdianapolis, Irvdiana 

Special Agent and Adjuster of Indiana, Illinois and 

Kentucky for the Prussian National Insurance 

Company of Stettin, Germany 



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John W. Williams, or "Jack," as he is called, 
the Prussian man, is not a Prussian by birth, but 
the Special Agent of Indiana, Illinois and Ken- 
tucky for the Prussian National Insurance Company 
of Stettin, Germany. 

Mr. Williams was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, 
and received his education in that city, where, in 
1879, he entered the insurance work as a member 
of the firm of M. E. V'inton &: Company, local 
agents, after which for two years, 1888 and 1889, 
he was engaged in the cold storage business at 
Omaha, Nebraska. He then accepted a place as 
Examiner for the Home Fire Insurance Company 
of Omaha, Nebraska, remaining with this company 
for five years. He then went with the Indiana In- 
surance Company of Indianapolis as Special Agent 
and Adjuster, and in May, 1901 accepted the posi- 
tion as Special Agent of Indiana, Kentucky, Texas, 
Louisiana and Arkansaw for the Prussian National 
Insurance Company of Germany, the company he 
now represents, as special Agent and Adjuster for 
Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. 



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John W. Williams 



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THOMAS E. SNYDER 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

Special Agent of Indiana for tlie ."Etna Fire Insurance 
Company of Harlforil, Connecticut 



Along with the other spring hatchings of 1 905 
the Indiana insurance field, of course, had hers, 
and on the ist day of March a new one in the 
form of Thomas E. Snyder was hatched in the 
Indiana field service under the wing of the Atna. 

Mr. Snyder was born in Ladoga, Indiana, Aug- 
ust 6th, 1879, and was educated in the schools of 
that place. Six years prior to March 1st, 1905, he 
accepted a position with local agents at Indianapolis, 
with whom he remained, spending half of his time 
on outside work and the other half on local work 
of this agenc)', until he accepted his present position 
as Special Agent of Indiana for the j+.tna of Hart- 
ford. 



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Thomas E. Snyder 



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DEAN A. BALDWIN 

Marion, Irtdtarva 

Special Agent of Indiana and Michigan for the Aachen 

and Munich Fire Insurance Company 

of Germany 



After an absence of about three years from the 
field, Dean A. Baldwin was again turned loose 
on the 15th day of March, 1905. Now, during 
these three years Mr. Baldwin has not been de- 
tained for the violation of any law, but has been 
engaged in the local fire insurance business in 
Marion, Indiana. 

Mr. Baldwin was born on the 7th of February, 
1864, on Deer Creek Hill, three miles south of 
Marion, Indiana, and was educated in the schools 
of that City. In his boyhood days he worked on 
his father's fruit farm near Marion. When he was 
nineteen he accepted a position as clerk in a grocery 
at Marion. Resigning five years later he entered 
the insurance business in the local agency of S. G. 
Baldwin, his uncle, at Marion. On February 1st, 
1896, he was appointed Special Agent and Adjuster 
for the Merchants Insurance Company of Newark, 
New Jersey, traveling in Indiana, Kentucky and 
Cincinnati, Ohio, with which company he re- 
mained for six years. He then bought a half 
interest in a local agency at Marion, which is 
known as the Baldwin & Sisson Agency. On the 
15th day of March, 1905, he accepted the position 
which he now holds as Special Agent for the 
Aachen and Munich Fire Insurance Company of 
Germany, still retaining his interest in the local 
agency at Marion. 



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Dean A. Baldwin 



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JOHN B. CROMER 

Indianapolis. Indiana 

State Agent of Indiana for the Home Insurance Company 
of New York 



Twenty-one consecutive years' field service with 
the company that enjoys the largest business of any 
company in the State of Indiana, is the experience 
of John B. Cromer, the State Agent for the 
Home of New York. He is one of the most pop- 
ular men in the Indiana field, and one who works 
for harmony among the companies and agents of 
the field, being the father of the Indiana Mercan- 
tile Schedule, which has done more to bring about 
harmony than any other one thing. 

Mr. Cromer was born in Fredericksburg, Wash- 
ington County, Ind., June 20, 1 850, and received his 
education in the common and academical schools of 
Indiana. After his school days he was a teacher in 
the public schools, and entered the local insurance 
business at Fredericksburg, 1876, in which he re- 
mained until 1883, when he was appointed Special 
Agent for the Home of New York, and in 1892 he 
was advanced to his present position as State 
Agent for Indiana. 



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WALTER P. BENTON 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

Special Agent for the Sun Insurance Otfice 
of London, England 



One early morning last summer the pleasure 
seeking visitors at the little summer resort of 
Maxinkuckee were aroused from their slumbers 
and thrown into a turmoil b\- a young lady who 
was standing on the bank of the lake screaming at 
the top of her voice that a sea serpent was in the 
lake. The people, terrified and with their hair 
standing on end, crowded the bank of the lake to 
see this terrible monster. After observing the sup- 
posed monster awhile, some one suggested that it 
was not a sea serpent, but two beer kegs floating 
in the lake. On closer observation it proved to be 
neither a sea serpent nor two beer kegs, but Colonel 
Bentox dragging his boat to the shore by the halter 
after having a falling out with it. 

Mr. Benton was born in Richmond, Indiana, 
August i6th, 1854, and was educated at Earlham 
College at Richmond. After leaving college he 
accepted a position as bank clerk at Richmond. In 

1884 he removed to Kansas as bank cashier, and in 

1885 he entered the insurance business as local 
agent. In 1891 he accepted the position which he 
now holds as Special Agent in Indiana for the Sun 
Insurance Office of London. 



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J. H. GRAY 

Indlarvapolis, Indiana 

State Agent of Indiana (or the North British and 

Mercantile Insurance C'oiiipany of London 

and Edinburgh 



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What is a circus without a clown? Did you 
ever stop to think how dull these big tented amuse- 
ments would be without the "Happy Hooligan?" 
And so it is in every business or organization, some 
one must be there whose wit and humor will make 
the duties a pleasure rather than a task. Chicago 
has the honor of being the birth place of John H. 
Gray, whose sense of the ludicrous and keen 
discernment makes him one of the leading fun- 
makers of the Indiana State Board of Fire Under- 
writers. 

Mr. Gray was born in the "Windy City" on 
the iith of November, 1868, and received his edu- 
cation in the common schools of that city. He has 
alwa\s been in the insurance business, entering it 
as an office boy on September nth, 1877, with the 
Chicago Board of Underwriters, resigning to accept 
a position with the British American Assurance 
Company under F. Van Voorhis at Chicago. In 
1882 he entered the office of T. S. Cunningham 
& Co., retaining the situation until 1885, when he 
entered the emp!o\ment of the Connecticut of 
Hartford, and in June, 1893, was appointed Special 
Agent for Cook County. In 1894 h*" went with 
R. S. Critchell & Company as Special Agent for 
Cook County. January ist, 1895, he accepted the 
Special Agency for Cook County with the North 
British and Mercantile Insurance Company, and in 
June of 1897 he was made State Agent of Indiana 
for that company, the position which he now holds. 

Mr. Gray is the President of the Indiana State 
Board of Fire Underwriters. 

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J- M. (ira\ 



53 



CLINTON D. LASHER 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

Special Agent o( Indiana for the Home Insurance 
Company of New York 

Clinton D. Lasher, one of the new men in the 
Indiana field, who makes the high-grass towns for 
the Home of New York, was born in V'enago, Pa., 
February I2th, 1873, and was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of that city and the High School of 
Indianapolis, Indiana. 

His first position was with D. H. Baldwin iSc 
Company, the piano people, as ofKce boy and 
clerk in their Indianapolis house, remaining with 
this company from 1889 to 1895. He then accepted 
a situation as time-keeper with the J. B. Allfree 
Manufacturing Company of Indianapolis. In April, 
1897, he became bookkeeper for the Indiana 
National Bank of Indianapolis, resigning in Novem- 
ber of the same year to accept a place with T. C. 
Day 6c Company, General Agents of Indiana for the 
Liability Department of the ^tna Life Insurance 
Company of Hartford, Connecticut, and in April, 
1902, entered the field for the same firm. Novem- 
ber, 15th, 1904, he accepted the position which he 
now holds, as Special Agent for the Home of New 
York. 



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ClJnton D. Usher 



55 



JOHN C. INGRAM 

Chicago, Illinois 

Assistant Manager of the Western Department of the 
German-American and German Alliance Insur- 
ance Companies of New York 



John C. Ingram was born in Defiance, Ohio, 
November yth, 1853, and was educated in the 
schools of Lofjansport, Indiana. He first entered 
insurance work as a local agent at Logansport in 
1869, remaining in the local business until 1883. 
At the time he entered local insurance work he 
was engaged in the banking business, and was 
Cashier of the Logansport Banking Company and 
State National Bank of Logansport from 1873 to 
1885, when he was appointed Special Agent of the 
Liverpool <S: London (Sc Globe Insurance Compan\-, 
with which company he remained until 1896, re- 
signing to accept a position as Special Agent in 
Indiana for the Gentian American and German 
Alliance Insurance Companies of New York, the 
companies with \\ hich he is now connected. On 
the 15th day of August, 1904, Mr. Ingram was 
appointed Assistant Manager of the Western De- 
partment of the German American and German 
Alliance at Chicago, and thus the Indiana field lost 
one of its best and most well-known men in the 
strengthening of the management of these two 
companies. 



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John C. Injjram 



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WHITNEY P. JAMES 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

Special Agent National Fire Insurance Company 
of Hartford, Connecticut 



Although Whitney P. James' odd moments 
are spent upon the golf links, he is not the James 
who, in 1903, won the National American Golf 
Championship of America. These laurels belong 
to his brother, Louis James. Besides being a golf 
player and a brother to the former champion of that 
great game, Mr. James is one of the well-known 
insurance men in the Indiana field. 

He was born in Chicago, Illinois, December 
nth, 1874, and was educated in the schools of that 
city, and has always been in the insurance business, 
entering it in 1894 with the National Fire Insurance 
Company at Chicago, with which company he is 
now connected as Special Agent. 



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Whitney P. James 



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LOUIS H. WOLFF 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

State Agent .?itna Fire Insurance Company 
of Hartford, Connecticut 



LoLis H. Wolff was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
in 1862, and was educated in Chickering Institute 
of that city. I believe that Chickering Institute 
does not advertise to turn out authors, or even 
tries to, but in some way the "book bee" managed 
to wiggle itself into Mr. Wolff's chamber of ideas, 
and we find he has written "Wolff's Law of Insur- 
ance Agency," and is, at the present time, burning 
the midnight oil, working on another book, which 
when published will be known as "Wolff's Law on 
Adjustments." Mr. Wolff, of course, has done 
other things beside write books. He first started 
in business life in the dry goods business, retiring 
in 1890 to enter the insurance work. From 1 891 
to 1894 he was connected with the Guardian 
Assurance Compan\'. He was with the Palatian 
from 1894 to 1897. In 1897 he went with the 
Royal Insurance Company, with which company 
he remained until 1904, when he accepted his 
present position as State Agent for the Aitm Fire 
Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut. 



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Louis H. Wolff 



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ROBERT McHATTON 

Indianapolis. Indiana 

State Agent of Indiana for the New York Underwriters 
Agency of New York 

Long before the well-known cereal, Force, was 
ever heard of, a boy was born in Warsaw, Ken- 
tucky, who was destined to become the "Sunny 
Jim" of the Indiana State Board of Fire Under- 
writers. This "Sunny Jim," whose real name is 
Robert McHatton, was educated in the public 
schools of Warsaw, and has always been in the 
insurance business, entering it in Vevay, Indiana. 
1878. From 1 89 1 to 1897 he represented the 
Home of New York, as Special Agent, through 
Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and the Indian 
Territory. In March, 1897, he accepted the posi- 
tion which he now holds, as State Agent of Indiana 
for the New York Underwriters Agency of New 
York. 



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Robert McHatton 



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PERCY W. GREENE 

Washington, Indiana 

Special Agent of Indiana and Kentucky for tlie 

National Union Fire Insurance Company 

of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania 



Percy \V. Greene, who travels with an 
exerciser in his grip, either to aid him in adding a 
few pounds of flesh now and then or to keep hiin- 
self in shape so as to be able to cope with the 
people who save up all their grievances until they 
meet an insurance man and then attempt to work 
it ofi on him, was born in North \'ernon, Indiana, 
November 28th, 1879, and was educated in the 
schools of Alexandria, Kentuck\ , where he resided 
until 1897, when he removed to Indianapolis, and 
entered the insurance business, working in various 
local offices in that city, until 1902, when he 
accepted a position as Special Agent of Indiana for 
the Thuringia Insurance Company of Germany, 
with which company he remained until April, 1904, 
when the company re-insured. He was then 
appointed to the place he now holds as Special 
Agent of Indiana and Kentucky for the National 
Union Fire Insurance Company. 



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Percy NN . Cireene 



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HARRY K. GAMBLE 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

Special Agent and Adjuster for the Pennsylvania Fire 
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 



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The accompanying caricature is not an ad. for 
the well-known cereal, Quaker Oats, nor is it a 
likeness of William Penn, but that of Harry K. 
Gamble, the Pennsylvania Fire's Indiana Special 
Agent and Adjuster, who was born in Martinsville, 
Illinois, where in 1883 he entered the drug busi- 
ness. In 1890 he engaged in the local insurance 
work, at that place, still retaining his drug interests. 
In 1898 he retired from the drug and local insur- 
ance business and accepted a position with the 
Phoenix of Hartford, as their Special Agent in 
Indiana and Southern Illinois, with which company 
he remained until June, 1903, resigning to take the 
position he now holds with the Pennsylvania Fire. 



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Marry K. (iamble 



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WILLIAM W. FULTON 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

Special Agent of Indiana for the New York Underwriters 
Agency of New York 



William W. Fulton is a son of Commodore 
Fulton, and a "chip off the old block," who loves 
the launch and Lake Maxinkuckee as well as does 
the Commodore. But on top of all this the auto- 
mobile craze has overtaken him, and with his auto 
he is assisting the other chauffeurs of Indianapolis 
and thereabout in making life miserable for the 
pedestrians and anything else that happens on the 
street. 

Mr. Fulton was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, 
January 30th, 1879, and was educated in the public 
schools of that city. The ist of October, 1899, 
he was appointed Special Agent of Indiana for the 
Firemans Fund and Home Fire and Marine Insur- 
ance Companies of California. August the 1st, 
1904, he accepted the position which he now holds 
as Special Agent of Indiana for the New York 
Underwriters Agency of New \'ork. 



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William \N . I ulton 



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JAMES M. LARMORE 

Anderson, Indiana 

Special Agent o( Indiana (or the Norwich Union Fire 
Insurance Society of England 



James M. Lar.MORE could, with propriety, be 
nicknamed "Anderson,"' on account of his love for 
that little Indiana village, in which, it is needless to 
say, he resides, but for some reason the nicknaniers 
have not as yet taken up his case, and he still goes 
by the name that is recorded in the Larmore family 
Bible. 

Mr. Larmore was not born in Anderson, as 
you would suppose, but in Tuscola, Illinois, Sep- 
tember, 26th, 1874, "ind was educated in the public 
schools of Madison County, Indiana. In i88g he 
first engaged in the insurance business in a local 
agency at Pendleton, Indiana. On January 1st, 
1905, he enteretl the Indiana Field, with the Nor- 
wich Union Fire Insurance Society in the position 
which he now holds, as Indiana Special Agent. 



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James M. Larniore 



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CHARLES H. MOORE 

Richmond, Indiana 

Special Agent for the Phenix Insurance Company 
of Brooklyn 



Charles H. Moore is a product of Richmond. 
Indiana's Quaker City, and he received his educa- 
tion in the schools of that city, where he has 
always resided. 

Until 1886 he engaijed in the boot and shoe, 
coal and wood business, then entered the insurance 
work, representing the largest agency in Richmond 
with which he remaineii until 1 89 1, when T. R. 
Burch, at that time General Agent for the Phenix 
of Brooklyn, offered him the position as Special 
Agent of Indiana for that company, which he 
accepted, remaining with that company in that 
capacity ever since. 



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Charles M. Moore 



73 



ALEXANDER R. MONROE 

Chicago, Illinois 

Assistant Manager of the Western Department of the Queen 
Insurance Company of America 

'^ 

The Indiana Insurance Field in October, 1 904, 
suffered the loss of one of its best and most well- 
known men, when Alexander R. Monroe was 
taken from the field and advanced to the Assistant 
Managership of the Western Department of the 
Queen Insurance Company of America, at Chicago. 

Mr. Monroe was born in Tain Rosshire, Scot- 
land, and was educated in Edinburgh, Scotland, 
after which for awhile he was employed in a share- 
broker's office at Edinburgh, later moving to this 
countrv. He became cashier in a dry goods store 
at Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1883 he entered the 
insurance business at Indianapolis. January ist, 
1895, he was made Special Agent of Indiana and 
Kentucky for the Connecticut Fire, and in 1898 
was given the State Agency of Indiana for this 
company. In igoo he was appointed Special Agent 
of Indiana for the Queen Insurance Company of 
America, and in October, 1904, was called to 
Chicago to assume the place as acting Assistant 
Manager of the Western Department of the Queen 
Insurance Company of America, and on January 
1st, 1905, was made Assistant Manager, the place 
he now holds. 



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Alexander R. .Monroe 



73 



HENRY J. WOESSNER 

Ann Arbor, Michigan 

Special Agent of Indiana and Michigan for the American 
Central Insiirance Company of St. Louis 



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Among the list of hunters and fishermen in the 
Indiana Insurance Field is Henry J. Woessner, 
the American Central's Special Agent for Indiana 
and Michigan. He enjoys the sports as well as 
any of them, and emulating Isaac Walton and 
Thompson Seton, celebrated fisher and hunter, 
delights to romance before a glowing fire of the 
"VV^ild Animals I Have Known," which are more 
real in the parlor than on the field of action. 

Mr. Woessner was born in Marquette, Mich- 
igan, and received his education in the schools of 
that place. He first engaged in the practice of law 
at Marquette, and was County Clerk and Register 
of Deeds for Menominee County, Michigan, and 
for twelve years held various other political posi- 
tions. He first engaged in the insurance business 
as a local agent at Menominee, Michigan, repre- 
senting twenty-two different companies at one 
time. On Januar\ ist, 1902, he accepted the posi- 
tion which he now holds as Special Agent of 
Michigan and Indiana for the American Central 
Insurance Company of St. Louis. 



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Henry J. Woessner 



77 



FRANK N. BROWN 

Grand Rapids, Michigan 

Special Agent Michigan, Indiana and Illinois for the 
Caledonian Insurance Company of Scotland 

Frank N. Browx, the Caledonian's repre- 
sentative in Indiana, is now going around with a 
birthday smile on his face, and reminding his 
acquaintances that his company is this year cele- 
brating its centennial. Mr. Brown has not been 
with the Caledonian all this last century, owing to 
circumstances over which he and the company had 
no control. 

He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, May 
24th, 1874, and was educated in Canaan, Con- 
necticut. After his school days he accepted a 
position as chief clerk in the freight office of the 
Poughkeepsie Bridge Route at Canaan, which 
place he held from 1890 until April ist, of 1897, 
when he entered the insurance business in the 
United States head office of the Caledonian Insur- 
ance Company of Scotland, at New \'ork City, 
where he remained until January ist, 1902, when 
he was appointed to his present position as Special 
Agent for Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, with 
headquarters at Grand Rapids, Michigan. 



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Frank N. Brown 



79 



ROBERT L. PARSONS 

Chicago, Illinois 

Special Agent of Imliana, Illinois, Michigan and the City o( 

St. Louis for the New Hampshire Fire Insurance 

Company of Manchester, New Hampshire 



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Robert L. Parsons, who enjoys a game of 
whist, at which he is something more than an 
amateur, was born in Orange, New Jersey, March 
20th, 1865, anil was educated in the common 
schools of Plainfield and East Orange, New Jersey. 

His first position was in the offices of the York 
Street Flax Spinning Company, Limited, in New 
York City, remaining with this company from 1878 
to June, 1884, when he accepted a situation as 
bookkeeper and accountant in the Western Depart- 
ment of the Imperial Fire Insurance Company of 
London. On June ist, 1897, he was appointed 
Special Agent in Indiana and Illinois for the same 
company, with which company he reinained until 
its death on June ist, igo2. On June 9th of the 
same year he accepted a place with the New 
Hampshire Fire Insurance Company as Special 
Agent, traveling in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, 
Ohio and Michigan. Later on his territory was 
changed to include Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, 
with the city of St. Louis, in which territor\ he 
now travels. 



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Robert L. Parsons 



61 



HARMON H. FRIEDLEY 

Indianapolis, IndianaL 

Indiana State Agent tor the Insurance Company of North 
America and Philadelphia Underwriters 

Born on a farm in Harrison County, Indiana, 
in 1852 and educated in the public schools and 
State University at Bloomington, was Harmon H. 
Friedlev, the prominent State Agent for the 
Insurance Company of North America and Phila- 
delphia Underwriters. The man, who in traveling, 
is so easily remembered the conductors do not put 
a tag in his hat. His watch charm, which appears 
in the accompanying caricature, I will say nothing 
about. After leaving college, he practiced law at 
Bedford and Bloomington, Indiana, from 1878 to 
1884, and his knowledge of law makes him a very 
valuable man in the State Board, of which he is a 
member, as well as in the adjustment of losses. 
He first entered the insurance business in 1876, 
having a local agency in connection with his law 
office. In February, 1884, he was appointed on 
the field force of the Royal Insurance Company, 
remaining with this company for seventeen years, 
five years of that time he was Superintendent of 
the Royal's Loss Department at Chicago. In 
October, 1901, he returned to Indiana as State 
Agent for the Insurance Company of North 
America and Philadelphia Underwriters, which 
position he now holds. 



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Harmon H. I'riedley 



83 



JOHN R. ENGLE 

Winchester, Indiana 

State Agent of Indiana for tfie Milwaukee Mecfianics 
Insurance Company, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin 



There are many things that have made 
Milwaukee famous. John R. En"GLE has made 
Milwaukee famous among the insurance men of 
Indiana, not because he is from that city, for 
he is not, but because he represents one of 
the prosperous institutions of that city, the 
Milwaukee Mechanics Insurance Company. Mr. 
Engle is an Indiana product, having been born 
in Winchester, Indiana, December ist, 1857. He 
was educated in the public-sschools of that place, 
and entered the insurance business in his father's 
local agency at Winchester in 1877. From August, 
1889 to August, 1893, he was Clerk of the Court 
of Randolph County. In 1894 he was appointed 
Special Agent for the Franklin of Evansville, and 
in March of the following year accepted the posi- 
tion he now holds as State Agent of Indiana for 
the Milwaukee Mechanics Insurance Company. 



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John R. Enjcle 



83 



EDWARD C. MUNSON 

New York, New York 

General Agent for the Glazier Nozzle and 
Maniitacturing Company 



Edward C. Munson, the man on the nozzle, 
who is now General Agent for the Glazier Nozzle 
and Manufacturing Company, in the East, with 
headquarters at New York City, was formerly one 
of the field men in Indiana, and like his father, 
Edward A. Munson, is a genial entertainer and a 
companionable gentleman. 

Mr. Munson was born at Cleveland, Ohio, 
September 28th, 1861. He removed to Indian- 
apolis when a child and was educated in the schools 
of that city. He entered the insurance business at 
that place in the branch office of the North British 
and Mercantile Insurance Company, when that 
company was under the resident secretary system, 
after which Mr. Munson was engaged in the field 
work for a number of years in Indiana and other 
States of the Middle West. 



86 



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IS <.£nrAiNL.)f 

THE C/^/vOY 




Edward C. Alunson 



67 



FRANK RITCHIE 

Indian&polis, Indiana 

Special Agent and Adjuster of Indiana and Western Ohio 

for the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance 

Company of England 



Frank Ritchie was born in Boston, Massa- 
chusetts, and received his education in the schools 
of Oxford, Ohio. 

In March, 1872, he entered the insurance busi- 
ness at Cincinnati, Ohio, in the offices of John S. 
Law Sc Sons, managers of the Royal Insurance 
Company, remaining with them for twelve years, 
having been in the meantime appointed Adjuster. 
He was State Agent and Adjuster for the New 
York Underwriters Agency for Indiana for ten 
years, from 1884 to 1894. In 1894 he was 
appointed Assistant General Agent for the Hanover 
Insurance Company at Chicago, and on March i, 
1899, he accepted the position which he now holds 
as Special Agent and Adjuster of Indiana and 
Western Ohio for the Liverpool & London «Sc 
Globe Insurance Compan\ of England. 



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Frank Ritchie 



89 



HARRY OTIS PHILLIPS 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

State Agent of Indiana for the Hanover Fire Insurance 
Company of New York 



In selecting shoes we usually buy the ones that 
look and feel the best on our feet, and then again 
we sometimes size up our pocketbooks and then 
look at the price mark. Very few of us are 
thoughtful enough to think of the maker of the 
shoes, but Harry Otis Phillips, the Hanover's 
representative in Indiana, is one who does. His 
tender heart goes out to the abused, and in conse- 
quence he wears the Douglas shoes, because, he 
says he likes to patronize a bald-headed man. 

This kind-hearted and thoughtful man was born 
in Chippewa Falls, W^isconsin, July 31st, 1867, and 
was educated in the public schools of Minneapolis, 
Minnesota, Carleton College of Northfield, Minne- 
sota, and Minnesota State University of Minne- 
apolis. His first business experience was with the 
Peavey Elevator Company of Minneapolis, with 
which company he remained a year. In January 
of 1 89 1 he first entered the insurance work as 
assistant to Judge VV. B. Leach, Secretary of the 
Minneapolis Board of Underwriters. In July of 
1903 he was appointed Special Agent of the 
Western States, with headquarters at Chicago, for 
the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsyl- 
vania, and in March of 1902 he became State 
Agent of Indiana for the Hanover Fire Insurance 
Company of New \'ork. 



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Harry Otrs Phillips 



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EDWARD A. MUNSON 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

Special Agent Citizens Insurance Company 
of Missouri 

Edward A. Munson was born in Berkshire 
Count\-, Massachusetts, the 1 8th day of April, 
1830, and was educated at Oberlin, Ohio. 

Mr. Munson is one of the best known men in 
the Indiana Field. Billiards and athletics are his 
pastime. A genial entertainer and a companion- 
able gentleman. For the most part he has been in 
the field since 1869, representing in Indiana the 
Girard Insurance Company as Special Agent, and 
the North British and Mercantile as Special Agent 
and Resident Secretary, and for the last eight years 
the Citizens Insurance Compan\' of Missouri as 
Special Agent. 



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Edward A. Munsun 



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WILLIAM HENRY FULTON 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

State Agent ot Indiana for the Firemens Fund and Home 
Fire and Marine Insurance Companies of California 



William Henry Fulton, or Commodore 
Fulton, as he is known, is not a commissioned 
officer in the United States Navy, nor does he 
claim the distinction of having built the Clermont, 
long the only steamboat in the world, but he is the 
owner of a launch at Lake Maxinkuckee. 

Commodore Fulton was born in West Liberty, 
Logan County, Ohio, and is a well-known figure 
in Indiana insurance circles, having been in the 
business so long that he himself fails to give the 
date when he slid in. He has represented, in the 
Indiana Field, the Franklin Insurance Company of 
Indiana, and the Lancashire of England. He now 
represents the Firemens Fund and Home Fire and 
Marine Insurance Companies of California, as 
State Agent, having started with this compan\ in 
18H9, taking the Indiana Field as successor to Milo 
E. Lawrence. 



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William Henry Hulton 



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EDWARD W. JEWELL 

Irvdianapolis, Indiana 

Special Agent of Indiana for the Britisti America Assurance 

Company and Western Assurance Compan)' 

of Toronto, Canada 



It is very seldom after a jewel is found that it is 
not claimed by someone, but there is a jewel-!, 
who has been known of for thirty-three years and 
is still unclaiined. Edward W. Jewell, Special 
Agent in Indiana for the British America and 
Western Assurance Companies, is this jewel-1. 
How much longer he will be able to hold out 
against the smiles of the fairer sex, I am not at this 
writing able to say. But I am sure that they will 
not give up until this jewel-1 is claimed. 

Mr. Jewell was born in Topelca, Kansas, June 
8th, 1872, and received his education in the public 
schools and Washburn College of that city. He 
has always been in the insurance business, entering 
it in July, 1892, at Chicago with the Fidelity & 
Casualty Company. From 1893 to 1895 he was in 
the offices of the Prussian National Insurance 
Company at Chicago, and from there he went to 
the offices of Goodwin, Hall & Henshaw, after- 
wards Hall & Henshaw, local agents of Chicago. 
In 1902 he was appointed Special Agent of the 
British America for Chicago, Cook County, and 
in 1904 was transferred to the position he now 
holds as Special Agent of Indiana for the British 
America and Western Assurance Companies of 
Toronto, Canada. 



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Edward W. Jewell 



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GEORGE E. HAAS 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

Special Agent tor the Atlas Assurance Company, 
Limited, of England 



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George E. Haas was born in Shelb\-ville, 
Indiana, on October loth, 1874, and was educated 
at Hope, Indiana. He bas always been in the 
insurance business, entering it at Indianapolis in 
1889 witb the Alex Metzger Agency. In 1892 he 
removed to Chicago and accepted a position with 
the Atlas Assurance Company, with which he is 
now connected as Special Agent. 

Mr. Haas has been very prominent in the insur- 
ance fields of Indiana and Chicago, having been a 
leader in the organization of The Fire Insurance 
Club of Chicago, an organization of insurance 
men. 



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Qeorge E. Haas 



L.o*C. 



99 



BURT J. GILMORE 

Indianapolis. Indiana 

Special Agent ot Indiana (or the German American and 
German Alliance Insurance Companies, of New \'ork 



Burt J. Gilmore, or Bishop Gilmore as he is 
called by the insurance men, is a product of the 
Empire State, being born in Genesee County, 
New York, June 22nd, 1863, and was educated in 
the public schools of Warsaw and Plymouth, Indi- 
ana, and for six years after his school days he was 
employed in the First National Bank of Plymouth. 

In 1887 Mr. Gilmore entered the insurance 
business in the Western Department of the 
Niagara Insurance Company of New York, at 
Chicago, after which he went with the Firemens 
Fund as clerk in their Chicago offices. He then 
was connected with the National of Hartford, in 
the same capacity, in the General Agency at 
Chicago. Resigning this place he accepted a posi- 
tion with the Royal Exchange as Special Agent for 
Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. He then returned 
to the Firemans Fund as Special Agent, and later 
accepted the Special Agency of Indiana, Kentucky 
and Tennessee for the Northern of London, with 
which company he remained until Septeinber, 1904, 
when he was appointed to the place he now holds 
as Special Agent of Indiana for the German Amer- 
ican and German Alliance Insurance Companies, 
of New York. 



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Hurt J. (iilmore 



101 



J. H. SERFF 

Indianapolis, Indiana 

State Agent of Indiana for the Phoenix Insurance Company 
of Hartford, Connecticut 



J. H. Serff is not a salesman for the Cubanola 
cigar, but is one of the smokers of that popular 
brand, upon whom his friends, on account of his 
good nature, are always playing jokes. Commodore, 
as he is called, is ne\er happier than when rusti- 
cating at his summer hotel at Hean Blossom, com- 
monly called "Wake Up," where he formerly 
cultivated a large crop of sub-agencies. 

Mr. Serff was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, 
and received his education in the public schools of 
Hanover, and Binszhamton, New York, Commer- 
cial College. For fifteen years after his college 
days he was engaged in the hardware business and 
in 1883 entered the insurance work with the 
Phoenix Insurance Company of Hartford, Connec- 
ticut, at Indianapolis, with which company he has 
been connected ever since, now representing them 
as their Indiana State Agent. 



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J. H. Serif 



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HORATIO N. KELSEY 

Chicago, Illinois 

Manager Western Department Sun Insurance Othce 
at Chicago 



The gentleman in the accompanying caricature, 
"With the Warm Job," is not the ruler of "Old 
Sol," but Horatio N. Kelsey, Manager of the 
Western Department of the Sun Insurance Office 
of London, England, at Chicago, who was formerly 
one of the Indiana field men. 

Mr. Kelsey vvas born in St. Marys, Ohio, June 
14, 1865, and began his eiiucation in the public 
schools of Indianapolis, afterwards attending Butler 
University. In 1883 he entered the insurance busi- 
ness in a local agency at Indianapolis. In 1888 he 
was appointed Special Agent of Iowa, Nebraska, 
Missouri and Kansas for the London Assurance 
Company, and in 1 890 he accepted a place with the 
Norwich Union Fire Insurance Societ\ of London, 
England, and the Indemnity of New ^ ork as State 
Agent and Adjuster of Indiana and Illinois. March 
1st, 1 900, he was offered the Assistant Managership 
of the Western Department of the Sun Insurance 
Office at Chicago, which he accepted, and vvas later 
advanced to the Managership, the place he now 
holds. And thus the law of compensation has 
been verified in Indiana's field loss and the Sun's 
gain. 



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Mnratio N. Kelsc> 



105 




That Gang Was the Limit' 



107 



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Moe H. Balilwin ^ 

Foreworil 4 

"That gang was the limit" 107 



BlOc; R A P H I C A I. 

Dean A. Baldwin 
Walter P. Benton 
Joseph Bierbrauer 
Charles Boicoiirt 

Horace W. Boyd 

Frank N. Brown 
John B. Cromer 
Andrew J. Dillon 
John R. Engle 
John Fitzgerald 

Harmon H. Friedley 

William Henry Fulton 

William W. Fulton 

Harry K. Gamble 

Burt J. Gilmore . 

J . H . Gray 

Percy W. Greene 

George E. Haas 

A. B. Hahn 

John H. Hcllekson 

Harry B. Heywooil 

George O. Hoadley 

John C. Ingram .... 

Whitney P. James 

Edward W. Jewell 

Charles A. Kelley 

Benjamin Kelsey 
Horatio N. Kelsey 
Fred W. KoecheM 



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29 


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85 


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25 


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83 


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95 


68 


69 


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101 


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53 


64- 


65 


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99 


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INDEX — Continue,/ 



James M. Larniore . . 
Clinton D. Lasher 
Robert G. McCullough 

Robert McHatton 

Charles H. Moore 

Ernest L. Moore . 

Alexander R. Monroe. 
Edward A. Munson. , , 
Edwaid C. Munson 
Robert L. Parsons 
Fred S. Penficid ... 

Harry Otis Phillips 

J. Irving Riddle 

Frank Ritchie 

Channing L. Rudy 

J. H. Sertf 

Thomas E. Snyder 

John \V. Williams 

Henry J. Woessner 

Louis H. Woltf 

William J. Wood 



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72- 73 
26- 27 

74- 75 
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86- 87 
80- 81 
12- 13 
90- 91 
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88- 89 
40- 41 
102-103 
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